Deputies Swarm Across The Border
To Nab Halloween Prankster
An Ash teenager got more than he
bargained for Saturday night after he
allegedly played a prank on a
Calabash woman and found himself
surrounded by eight police cars and a
detective ready to book him on
felony burglary charges.
According to a crime report on file
at the Brunswick County Sheriff's
Department Monday, Deputy Phil
Bryant was called at about 11:30
p.m. to investigate a burglary at a 23
year-old woman's home in the
Carolina Shores resort condomini
ums.
"The victim advised me that she
was sitting on her couch with her
boyfriend, laughing," the report said.
"She heard a voice outside her door
mocking her laughter."
Moments later she heard someone
trying to open the door. Bryant re
ported. When the person tried the
door a second time, he snatched it
open and came inside. The woman
and her boyfriend ran toward the
door, but the intruder had vanished.
So they called 91 1.
Meanwhile, eight sheriff's
deputies and a detective were just
finishing a pizza at a Calabash
restaurant where they had met for a
late-night snack.
"We had extra patrols on duty that
night in case of any Halloween van
dalism," said Detective Tom Hunter.
"1 met them for a break and they left
me with the bill."
As the deputies were leaving, a
white car came out of Carolina
Shores Resort its headlights off,
headed toward the South Carolina
line. Hunter said. As the officers
took off after it, Brunswick County
911 broadcast an alert to be on the
lookout for a white car fleeing the
scene of a burglary in Carolina
Shores Resort.
"I caught up to them just across
the South Carolina line on N.C.
Officers Issue
34 Seat Belt
Tickets Here
Brunswick County law enforce
ment officers working nine check
points issued 34 citations for seat
belt violations and one for a child
safety seat violation in the third
week of "Click It or Ticket."
Seat belt and child safety seat vio
lations dropped about 29 percent
from the first to the third week, ac
cording to Joe Parker, director of the
Governor's Highway Safety Pro
gram.
Since the program began Oct. 4,
officers across the state have written
30,749 tickets ? 28,951 for seat belt
violations and 1,789 for child safety
seat violations.
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a.m. until 5 p.m.
Plates will include pork barbecue,
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a "super plate."
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179," Hunter said. "There were three
guys spread-eagled against a car sur
rounded by eight sheriff's cars and
two Horry County units. They were
scared and ready to talk."
One of the three men was identi
fied as the person who entered the
woman's condominium. Hunter said.
Faced with the possibility of being
jailed in South Carolina and extradit
ed north on a felony charge, the man
agreed to accompany Hunter to a
magistrate in Brunswick County.
After interviewing the victims.
Hunter charged Wade Bliss Ashley,
17, of Ash-Little River Road with
misdemeanor breaking and entering.
Hunter said. The driver of the car
was charged with misdemeanor pos
session of marijuana by Horry
County authorities. Hunter said.
In other crime reports on file at
the sheriff's office Monday:
?A Carolina Beach man was ar
rested on charges of indecent expo
sure after being observed fondling
himself in the "adult" section of a
Southport video rental store Saturday
night. Responding to investigate.
Detective Charlie Miller talked to
two female store employees who
pointed the man out in another sec
tion of the store. Miller said he asked
the man to step outside, where he de
nied the allegations. After further in
vestigation, Miller placed the man
under arrest.
?An estimated $1,300 worth of
audio-visual equipment was stolen
from Lincoln Primary School in a
break-in reported last week.
According to Deputy William
Hewett's report, the thief or thieves
broke windows in the media room
and the special education room and
entered a classroom across the hall.
Found missing there were a video
camcorder, a color television, a
record player, a videocassette
recorder and a tripod. They also at
tempted unsuccessfully to enter the
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hand room, the report said.
?More than $3,600 worth of cash,
cigarettes and beer were stolen in a
break-in at a convenience store on
Village Road, Leland, Saturday
night. An employee told Hewett that
he arrived at 8 a.m. the next morning
to find that a neon "open" sign had
been removed from the front door.
Inside, the employee discovered that
$1,400 cash, 299 cartons of Basic
cigarettes and ten 12-packs of
Budweiser beer had been removed.
There was no sign of forced entry.
?An employee of duPont in
Leland reported that her car had been
shot at while leaving the plant
Tuesday evening. The 48-year-old
Lake Waccamaw woman told
Hewett she left the plant at about
8:15 and was making a left onto
Mount Misery Road "when she
heard an impact on her passenger
side door." She drove straight home
and found an estimated $500 dam
age.
?In one of three break-ins report
ed in the Forest Hills subdivision last
weekend, a color television valued at
about $500 was stolen from a mobile
home off Kirby Road sometime in
the past three weeks. The owner told
Deputy J.D. Gray that she discov
ered the theft Friday at about 5 p.m.
There was an estimated $250 dam
age to two doors an a porch carpet,
the report said.
?Gray also investigated another
Forest Hills break-in where a $230
microwave oven was stolen some
time in the past three weeks. The
thief or thieves caused an estimated
$100 damage to two windows at the
rear of the mobile home The break
in was discovered Friday at 9:30
p.m.
?A circular saw and a leaf blower
valued at about $130 were stolen
from a building behind a mobile
home on Crest Street in Forest Hills
sometime in the past month. The
Roxboro man who owns the trailer
discovered the theft at about 9:30
p.m. Friday. Deputy Cathy Hamilton
estimated the damage to a broken
hasp at $5.
?(Someone broke into a mobile
home on Russ Street, off Seashore
Road, Supply, and helped themselves
to six cans of beer and a half-bottle
of vodka sometime in the past two
weeks. The Aberdeen retiree who
owns the trailer told Hamilton he ar
rived there Friday afternoon and
found that someone had pried open
the kitchen window. "Subjects also
went through all the drawers in the
mobile home and used both bath
rooms," the report said.
?Hamilton also investigated the
theft of more than $750 worth of
fishing equipment and other items
from a mobile home on Dockside
Street in the Buccaneer Hills subdi
vision. A female friend of the trailer
owner said she arrived one evening
last week, found the lights left on
and was afraid to go inside. Instead
she spent the night at a Shallotte mo
tel and returned the next morning to
find that the glass had been broken
out of a back door of the trailer.
Missing were five rods and reels,
four deep-sea rods, a tackle box, a
radio cassette player and a color tele
vision.
?Nothing was reported missing in
an apparent break-in attempt that oc
curred at a house on Fulford Avenue
in the Holiday Haven subdivision,
Supply, sometime in the past two
months. The owner was notified by a
neighbor that someone had kicked
open the door to his kitchen.
?Someone walked off with two
cases of beer from a service station
on Beach Drive in Calabash Friday
night. The owner told Deputy R.W.
Long II that a man came into the
store about 7:45, picked up two cas
es of Busch or Natural Lite and
walked out. They were valued at
$31.50.
?A Supply man who lives on
Mosquito Branch Road, Bolivia,
awoke Sunday morning to find that
someone had set fire to the interior
of his 1982 Ford pickup truck,
Hamilton reported. It appeared that
the fire started under the front pas
senger seat and caused an estimated
$600 damage.
?After leaving his 1984 Ford
Bronco parked at the Davis Creek
boat ramp Sunday afternoon, a
Leland man returned about an hour
later to find that the front passenger
window had been broken and a
stereo cassette removed from the
dash. It was valued at about $375.
Damage was estimated at $230.
Deputy Brian Sanders investigated.
?A mobile home on Oak Crest
Drive in Sea Pines subdivision,
Southport. was broken into some
time in the past two weeks, causing
about $200 damage to a back door.
The owner told Hamilton that he and
his wife arrived and discovered the
theft Friday afternoon. The man said
he had "bolted a metal brace across
the inside of the door, but the sub
jects pulled the ends of the bolts
through the door to get inside."
Missing were a color television and a
microwave oven valued at about
$550.
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